The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-06-11
April 3O-2in

and mc-there-is-a-g gulf fixed fell
lows? What makes them so pleas
ant and devoted to our interests?
"Blest be the tie that binds our
hearts,"
A farmer who was very fond of
chicken noticed that nearly all he
raised disappeared about frying
time, SO that he never got a pot
pie or fry. He at last decided
to build fence around his yard,
so tight that nothing could get
one. Just as he commenced a fox
came out Of thicket near by and
inquired of the farmer what he
was doing. The farmer explained
matters, when the fox, who disap-
proved Of the fence, said: 81 am
very much interested in this chick
en- business. Don't build fence.
leave this chicken business to me,
for | have made a life long-study
of the matter and understand it
thoroughly, while you do not. l
am just as much interested as you
are in having a large crop of chick
ems raised. Go, leave it to me,
and I'll attend to it," The farmer
suffered himself to be persuaded,
and, being hungry for chicken
then, he is hungry now, and likely
to be still more so. For in the
woods near by fat, sly fox has a
chicken for dinner every day, and
sleeps on a bed Of feathers every
night. So when the willy, tricky
politicians and wealthy obstacles to
all improvement tell us that they
have as much interest in the county
as we have; that the interest is all
one and the same; and, because
we don't understand the questions
Of finance and taxation. we ought
to leave such matters for them to
attend to, let us remember the
above fable, and that, while the
interest may be the same, their in
terests may not be our interests.
The singing class Of the Pea
Ridge Sunday-school meets every
Saturday evening at three O'Clock,
and is well attended.
The trespass law varies so much
in different places that it is really
refreshing to have some definite
decision. The Kentucky Court
of Appeals has (see last RoUNDA-
BOUT decided a case in which a
man was killed on railroad. 1t
is very interesting, as it settles two
points; first, that man can tres
pass on land that none claimed was
posted or enclosed and second,
that the proper thing to do with a
trespasser is to run a train of cars
over him.
IsT CiTIzEN-I'm agin the rail-
road, but I'm in favor of a few
more pixies. Railroads is a blasted
monopoly.
I'D CiTIZEN-I am in favor OF
pixies too; but isn't a pike a mo-
nopoly? AS we must, it seems,
have monopolies, let us favor the
most liberal. Railroads charge
three cents a mile, and furnish a
conveyance for travellers. Turn
pike roads charge often more, and
the traveller furnishes his own con-
veyance.
Many curious and amusing com
ments are made on the action of
five magistrates who. acting under
evil counsel, attempted to deprive
their constituents of right that is
guaranteed by the U. S. Constitu-
ton to every citizen. One excuse
made for such conduct is that the
people would run the county in
debt. How do you know? Sup
pose they did, who does the county
belong to? A man with nothing
ought not to distress himself much
about paying $4,000. And the
man who is we'll heeled need no
bother himself, either, for, if HI
! don't feel like paying, he can dt
like we expect to do, defer pay